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USE FACE B RICK 



Second Edition, Copyright, 1921 

By Paul B. Bblden, President 

The American Face Brick Association 

Chicago, 111. 



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Prepared for Publication by 

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The 

HOME OF BEAUTY 



A Collection of Architectural 
Designs for Small Houses Submitted 
in Competition hy Architects and 
Architectural Draftsmen and 
Selected from Four Hundred 
for their Merit 

I921 




PRICE FIFTY CENTS 



The American Face Brick association 

no SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 








CRADOCK HOUSE, MEDFORD, MASS. 

BUILT IN 1632 



^r^HIS charming old house was built for Gov- 
•*■ ernor Cradock of the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony. It is one of the oldest dwellings in the 
original portion of the United States. For nearly 
three hundred years it has withstood the ravages 
of time and weather and is today a comfortable 
home and a living monument to the durability of 
brick as a building material. 






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Introduction 

^HIS book is meant for the home builder who has the commendable 

desire of making his home as beautiful as possible. We all take for 
granted that the home should be permanent, comfortable, safe from fire, 
and convenient in all of its interior arrangements for the use of the family, 
but we sometimes overlook the fact that the home ought to reveal itself 
as attractive to the eye of the community. It ought to be given a certain 
character and individuality all its own, expressive of the life within. 

It is for this reason that we have brought these plans together in The 

Home of Beauty which we are now presenting to you. You doubtless 

'^ have often been offended, in going about from place to place, by the 

''^ uniformly dull and unattractive appearance of small or moderate-sized 

^ houses. They do not show an intelligent taste in design, form or color. 

Believing that there would be an immense benefit to any community 
if every house in it had some distinctive, artistic individuality, we ap- 
pealed to the architectural profession all over our country to furnish us 
with designs. It was possible to expect this co-operation on the part of 
the architects because of the public spirited and unselfish desire manifested 
on many occasions by them to serve gratuitously in any capacity which 
would tend to raise the artistic standards of the country and make avail- 
able to all people the best in the design and plan of the small house, which, 
owing to economic conditions, has hitherto had little expert consideration 
given it. The best method seemed to be to institute a general competition 
which would meet with the approval of the architects themselves. This 
was arranged through The Architectural Forum ^ formerly The Brickbuilder^ 
a leading professional journal of the country, published in Boston, and 
was approved by the Committee on Competitions of the American Insti- 
tute of Architects on the ground that the competition was educational 
and would stimulate the study of the small house problem by the younger 
men in the profession. The competition program called for a small face 
brick house of seven rooms, and laid down as requirements, (i) practi- 
cality in the plans in order to secure the greatest convenience of interior, 
arrangements, and (2) beauty in design. 

The response to this program by architectural designers from all over 
the country was most gratifying. In October (1919), when the awards were 
made of the four prizes and six mentions, there had been 1,66 drawings 
submitted for consideration, all of which showed a remarkably clear grasp 
of the purpose of the program and also great success in carrying it out. 
Five of the leading architects of the country generously contributed their 

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time to act as judges: Mr. Walter H. Kilham of Boston; Mr, Aymar 
Embury II of New York; Mr. H. Louis Duhring of Philadelphia; Mr. 
C. Herrick Hammond of Chicago; and Mr. Louis La Beaume of St. Louis, 
It was no easy task for these gentlemen to decide on the prizes and men- 
tions because of the uniform excellence of the designs; as they said in their 
report: "The uniformly high standard of them all made it extremely 
difficult to make the selections." But, after a very thorough examination 
of the plans, they assigned the four prizes and six mentions as indicated 
in the book. As it was very desirable for us to secure the best of this work 
for distribution, these gentlemen were also kind enough to select forty 
other drawings which would answer our purpose. Nor was this an easy 
task, for as the committee reported, "one could have selected (instead of 
forty) a hundred and fifty which were well rendered and of meritorious 
design." So that you are here offered fifty designs and floor plans for small 
brick houses that have been produced under exceptional circumstances. 

We certainly congratulate ourselves on the success of this competi- 
tion and as frankly congratulate you, for we can now place this fine work 
at your disposal. This means for you, first, that the plans which we now 
offer you have been prepared by experienced and competent designers 
of small houses the country over; and, secondly, that a group of able 
architects have freely given their time to the selection of these plans. 

We go still further. Besides the working drawings and specifications, 
we furnish you with a complete quantity survey or bill of materials, and 
then offer you the whole for the very nominal fee of ^25. You thus get 
for this small sum, due to the unselfish and co-operative spirit of the 
architectural profession, the finished work of a high-class architect which 
would otherwise cost you between I400 and I500. The quantity survey or 
bill of materials will greatly simplify the problem of the builder in 
estimating costs for any particular house, in any particular locality. 

These houses are to be faced with some type of brick which will 
exactly meet your own individual taste and which you can choose from the 
great variety of color tones and textures produced by the members of our 
Association. The backing of the wall is to be either of common brick, mak- 
ing a solid brick wall throughout, or of hollow tile, which some people 
prefer because of the air spaces it makes in the wall. In either case, you 
have a non-burnable or completely fireproof wall which will always be a 
barrier to the spread of fire within or without, a consideration of the ut- 
most importance to the safety and welfare of your family. 

You will observe that these fifty designs and plans offer you a great 
variety for your choice, so that you can determine, in view of the lot you 



THE HOME OF BEAUTY 7 

have or its surroundings, what type of house will best suit your purpose. 
In the brief description accompanying each there are given the extreme 
dimensions of the house, enabling you to determine the size of lot re- 
quired, and suggestions on the best location with respect to the compass. 
This latter point is important to observe if you want to be certain of 
having pleasant, sunny rooms. If any plan as shown in the illustration does 
not apply to the exposure of your lot, it can oftentimes be made to by 
the simple process of reversing it, which any' builder can readily do. The 
reversed arrangement can be seen by holding the plan to a mirror. If 
you find any difficulty in reading these plans, we should be pleased to 
answer any questions or help in any way we can in planning your home. 

Conditions in various parts of the country differ to such an extent, 
that it is not possible to give an indication on costs that would apply 
with any accuracy. When our competition for a 7-room house of 20,000 
cubic feet contents was announced, ^5 cents per cubic foot, or l7,ooo 
for the house, was the average cost for a number of small houses actually 
under construction during the first quarter of 1919. Since then increases 
have taken place in both labor and materials, so that the only method of 
obtaining a price today is to consult a builder in your own locality who is 
conversant with local labor and material markets. He will be able to name 
an approximate price for your guidance in the selection of a plan. 

A few general points that affect the cost may be noted. Conditions 
of material and finish being equal, it is usually found that a rectangular 
house with a simple roof is less expensive to build than one in the form of 
the letter L or T, inasmuch as the latter requires more exterior wall surface 
without creating any more room inside. It does, however, generally 
provide more pleasant and better lighted rooms because of the greater 
opportunity for windows. 

The in^terior finish, heating and plumbing equipment, lighting fixtures, 
etc., are important factors in cost, and if economy is exercised in their 
selection, the resulting saving may be used to pay for a larger house. 

The first thing for you to do, naturally, would be to secure a good 
builder. In case an architect is accessible, your best plan would be to put 
your building into his hands, but in case an architect is not accessible, 
these plans will prove the means of securing an attractive house. But you 
must secure a competent builder or contractor who will be able to under- 
stand and carry them out. We are not willing to sell you these plans on 
any other condition. If, however, you have a competent builder, the 
working drawings, specifications and quantity survey will prove to be 
complete instruments for the construction of your home. 



The Building of a Home 

WE do not need the advice of statesmen, philosophers, or divines to 
convince us of the fundamental importance of the home for the 
security and welfare of any civilization. The home is the source of all 
virtues, domestic and civic. The hearth is the cornerstone of a sound and 
lasting social order. We may well adapt the words of Burns, in his 
"Cotter's Saturday Night," to our American homes where Christian vir- 
tues are cherished. 

"From scenes like these our country^ s grandeur springs y 
"That makes her loved at home, reverd abroad." 
We may be certain that when American homes decay, America will 
decay, just as America will continue to grow in power and influence where 
American homes grow and deepen in moral value. The feeling for home 
is especially vital in these times of confusion and uncertainty when it is 
needed to balance and steady our American institutions. 

Value in Sentiment 

When your friend greets you at his door and adds, as he cordially in- 
vites you in, "make yourself at home," you know that he has offered 
you the sum total of hospitality. For home affords you not only the simple 
creature comforts of food, shelter, and warmth with a sense of security 
and well-being, free from stiff formalities and restraints, but it is a refuge 
from the toil and worry of the great outside, headlong, jostling world, and 
the center and source of all those dear affections of sympathy, kindliness, 
and mutual service which give to life its true meaning. 

The home feeling is an asset of the very highest value, for it pays 
richly in a sense of self-respect, of more responsible citizenship, of moral 
poise as a member of the community, besides giving profound personal 
satisfaction and enriching the spiritual values that arise out of family 
ties and affections. 

Then the community itself regards the home-owner with more 
respect than it does a floater; he is looked upon as a substantial citizen 
having a vital interest in the common welfare. 

It is such values as these rather than mere money returns on invest- 
ment, that should lead every young man to set out with the determination 
to lay by a monthly saving for a home fund, so that he can promise his 
bride what to her will prove the best of all gifts, a home. Nothing could be 
sounder or more wholesome for a young man than to set before him, as a 

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THE HOME OF BEAUTY 9 

fixed aim, the accumulation of a home-building fund. It will balance and 
steady him; it will make more of a man out of him, a better husband, 
father, citizen, friend. 

Practical Value 

If, on the sentimental side, the home thus proves to be an investment 
of incalculable value, it also has, on the practical side, its striking advan- 
tages. When you pay rent you are paying for what you have no owner- 
ship in. For any needed changes or additions, you are entirely dependent 
on the landlord's whim. He may be reasonable, and then again he may 
not be, but in either case, he and not you decides on what is of deep con- 
cern to you, the living comfort, convenience, and welfare of yourself 
and family. Then, you are subject, without any control on your part, to 
higher rent or notice to quit. You are entirely at the mercy of another's 
will, a sort of helpless pawn of fate. 

But if the money paid out for rent were applied in paying for a home, 
you become your own landlord and acquire property rights of which no 
one can dispossess you. The convenient changes or additions you want 
are subject to your own decision and are added to the value of your own 
property. You are not subject to higher rent nor can you be put out at 
another's dictation. If you go out, it is at your own option and you still 
have in your possession an income-bearing or salable property on which 
you can always realize what is often a very convenient loan, but you 
can never borrow anything on a stack of receipted rent bills. 

The building of a home is the most important undertaking in your 
life, not only because it is the center and symbol of the family, but be- 
cause from the practical money point of view, it involves a considerable 
investment. You don't build a home every year or every decade. You are 
going to live in it, or, so to speak, with it, as you do with your wife and 
children, a long period of years. It must, therefore, satisfy you in every 
way; you can't afford to make a mistake, or fool yourself when you build. 
You must build right, for when the house is built, it is too late to change 
if you are dissatisfied. Even if a change of fortune for better or worse 
leads you to move away, it is very important to you that the house is 
good enough to appeal strongly to the renter or purchaser. Your only 
wisdom, therefore, in building a home is to make it a valuable permanent 
investment, thoroughly satisfactory to yourself and to others who, if 
circumstances require, may take it off your hands to your advantage. 

For this reason you owe it to yourself to examine thoroughly all the 
problems involved in home building. In a word, you want to be sure, aside 



10 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

from a satisfactory plan of the interior, of two main points about your 
house; you want structural soundness y and artistic distinction in your home. 
To this end no other material, we claim, can offer you so many merits as 
face brick. Out of the structural and artistic merits of face brick grow 
economic and sentimental reasons for its use you can ill afford to neglect. 

Merits of the Face Brick House 

I. Structurally, brick are the soundest possible material. In the first 
place, the size and form of brick make them an easy material to handle 
and adaptable to the master mason's skilful craftsmanship. He builds 
them one by one into a solid wall fabric, strong and durable. Then the 
brick themselves, hardened and matured in fire, submit to the heaviest 
pressures and resist both the attacks of flame and the corrosions of time. 
Brick may well be called an everlasting material because they neither 
burn nor decay. Their history affords sufficient testimony, and the scene 
of any conflagration shows the brick walls and chimneys as solemn wit- 
nesses of their enduring strength. 

2. From an artistic point of view, brick can make equally strong 
claims to consideration. An endless variety of color tones and textures are 
offered for your choice which you may use in uniform shades, or, prefer- 
ably, in blended shades of the most delicate and charming effects. No other 
building material can approach face brick in the possibility of color 
schemes for the wall surface, either within or without, — and the colors 
last, for they are an integral part of the enduring brick. 

But to the artistic effect of the brick texture and color must be added 
the artistic effects secured by the treatment of the bond and mortar 
joint. The manner in which the brick are made to overlap in the wall has 
a decided influence on the result, and the mortar joint, in color, size, and 
kind is so important that we strongly urge you to talk the matter over 
with some experienced face brick salesman before building. The mortar 
joint may spoil or make the beauty of your wall. 

3. The economic merits of the face brick house are striking. From 
the very nature of the material and its construction you save on upkeep 
or maintenance, on depreciation, on insurance rates, on fuel, and even 
on doctor's bills. Brick do not decay, they require no paint, their deprecia- 
tion is practically nil, they make a tight wall that saves fuel, and a sani- 
tary one that prevents vermin. "" 

When it comes to sentimental reasons, your sense of satisfaction in 
having a substantial and attractive house, of justifiable pride and self- 
respect in possessing a home of distinction which your friends and neigh- 
bors admire, is a sort of imponderable value really worth more than money. 



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Comparative Costs 

How a real economy results from building a face brick home has been 
repeatedly shown from actual figures obtained, during the past ten years, 
from all parts of our country by face brick manufacturers. All of these 
figures are the bids for actual construction by experienced contractors in 
their various communities. As prices have changed greatly during the 
period in question, the percentages of difference will prove to be the only 
instructive figures, and are calculated on the total cost of the houses. We 
have the bids for 19 19 in our files for reference, and are ready to show them 
to any interested persons. As frame construction is usually the cheapest, 
we shall take it as the base of comparison, and give the percentages in 
excess over frame, for brick veneer, or face brick on frame in place of clap- 
boards; stucco on frame; face brick on hollow tile; and solid brick, or face 
brick on common brick backing. A moderate sized dwelling is used as a 
typical example and is the same in every respect except the exterior wall 
construction. First class face brick are used and all solid walls are furred. 



Table of Percentage Differences 



Year 


Frame 


Brick Veneer 


Stucco 


Brick on Tile 


Solid Brick 
9" Wall 


I9IO 


0.0% 


6.9% 


2.9% 


10.7% 


9.1% 


I9I3 


0.0% 


5.9% 


4-o% 




8.1% 


I9IS 


0.0% 


4.9% 


1.6% 




6.9% 


I9I9 


0.0% 


44% 


-0.5% 


6.1% 


6.4% 



These figures represent from nine to nineteen bids in each case, on 
which the average is given. Different contractors in the same place and 
different parts of the country sometimes show considerable divergence, but 
in view of the wide territory from which these bids have been gathered 
and the time covered, the averages may be taken as indicative of about 
the percentage of difference you would have to pay. It should be noted, 
in the case of the nine-inch solid brick wall and the brick on tile wall, that 
they are both over two inches thicker than the frame or stucco wall. By 
taking the nine-inch face brick solid, or hollow tile wall as a fair com- 
parison with frame and stucco, you can readily calculate what you really 
save by paying a little more at the start for the more substantial con- 
struction. Reverting to the economies of the face brick house you will find 
that your maintenance and depreciation items alone on the frame con- 
struction will, in a very few years, entirely wipe out the 5 per cent or 6 per 
cent excess initial cost of the brick, to say nothing of all the other items 



12 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

that go to make your face brick home all the time an investment of a 
permanent and remunerative value. 

Thus, a l7,ooo frame house would mean, figuring excess cost at 6 per 
cent, a ^7,420 face brick house. Depreciation at 2 per cent annually on the 
frame in five years would be I700; add to this a repainting bill of ^250 and 
you have a total of ^950. For the five years under consideration there 
would be no depreciation to be calculated on the brick house, but a re- 
painting bill of about ^85 for doors, windows, and outside trim would 
have to be charged up. This means that the difference of I865 between 
frame and brick upkeep and maintenance covers in five years more than 
twice the ^420 excess initial cost of the brick. To be penny wise and pound 
foolish in building your home looks like an excusable folly. Other ma- 
terials have their merits and make their appeal, but looking at the build- 
ing problem on all sides, no other material approaches brick in the 
structural and artistic values it offers — permanence, comfort, safety from 
fire, economy, and beauty. 

Second Edition 
The gratifying appreciation of the public for The Home of Beauty 
which has, during the past year, exhausted the first 25,000 edition demands 
this second edition. The character of the service offered in the book is 
indicated by the following extract from the recent letter of a very satis- 
fied customer who built house No. loi in northern Minnesota: 

"Its appearance excites no end of favorable comment and I am sure that it 

has interested several prospective homebuilders in the use of brick 

A leading architect of said that this house is the best designed and best 

looking house of any he has seen in this section of the country 

"I wish to thank you for the excellent service you rendered me at a cost 

that is practically negligible 

"This is the warmest house I have ever been in. We have severe winters in 
this section but at no time has the house been uncomfortable even on morn- 
ings when the mercury stood at 20 below zero." 

You owe it to yourself to look into this matter 01 Homebuilding 
thoroughly. You will get valuable and practical suggestions from any 
good face brick salesman. When you decide on a plan you like, the 
enclosed card will serve your convenience in ordering. Remember the 
nominal price of ^25.00 includes, besides full working drawings and speci- 
fications, a complete quantity estimate of materials. Extra sets of blue 
prints or specifications ^1.25 each. The exterior dimensions given Include 
structural extensions, such as roofed-over porches, entrances, and bays. 



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HOUSE No. 101, FIRST PRIZE 

Designed by Olaf William Shelgren, Buffalo, N. T. 




First Floor 



THIS simple, formal house would fit admira- 
bly on a lot with a frontage of 50 ft. It should 
preferably face the west, affording morning sun 
in the dining room and southern exposure for 
the living room. The kitchen has a window over- 
looking the street, making it a pleasant work- 



Second Floor 



place. The low shrub planting along the front 
of the house adds greatly to its homelike quali- 
ties. The porch faces the garden. The dimensions 
of the house are 28 ft. by 34 ft. The height of the 
first floor rooms is 8 ft. 2 in. and of the second, 
8 ft. Both floors have rooms of good size. 



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HOUSE No. 102, SECOND PRIZE 

Designed by Floyd Tevoell, New Tork, N. T. 




First Floor 



THIS house is most charming and picturesque 
in its design, and is a good solution of the 
problem of getting beauty into the small house. 
The interior is just as distinctive as the exterior; 
the living room is nicely proportioned and is very 
well lighted with attractive groups of windows. 
The house is fitted to either an inside or corner 
lot location, and can face the street as shown 
in the illustration, or the long side of the living 




Second Floor 



room may be toward the street. In either 
arrangement the entrance should face the west to 
get the best exposure for the principal rooms. 
The kitchen is placed on the northwest corner, 
and the rear arranged for a garden development 
to be enjoyed from the porch. The dimensions of 
the house are 27 ft. by 32 ft. The height of the 
first floor rooms is 8 ft. and of the second, 7 ft. 
6 in. Both floors are conveniently arranged. 



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HOUSE No. 103, THIRD PRIZE 

Designed by E. J. Mater, t. E. King and G. H. Erard, Toledo, 0. 




Second Floor 



BUNGALOWS have suffered more, perhaps, 
from poor design than any other type of 
house and the number of ugly ones is legion. The 
charm of the one illustrated here, however, is 
such as to make one wish that all houses were 
bungalows if they could be as attractive as this. 
Placed on a gently rising slope with a curving 
path to the porch, this house would have a 
picturesque quality difficult to equal. It is emi- 
nently suited to the country and would look well 



in a suburban location, though it would need a 
good sized plot to enable its full beauty to be 
seen. Its dimensions are 29 ft. by 43 ft. It could 
occupy a 60 X 100 ft. corner lot, with the entrance 
on the long frontage. A garage is suggested in 
the illustration tied into the house by a brick 
wall. In this arrangement the garden and lawn 
would be at the opposite end with a terrace out- 
side the living room windows. The ceiling height 
is 8 ft. The entrance side should face south. 



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HOUSE No. 104, FOURTH PRIZE 

Designed by Halsey B. Horner, Boston, Mass. 




First Floor 



THIS house shows a very compact and prac- 
tical floor plan. The hall is attractive with a 
large window lighting the stairs. The kitchen is 
conveniently arranged and connected with the 
dining room by a large pantry. The exterior of 
the house is very pleasing and picturesque. It 
could occupy any site, fitting a sloping lot equal- 
ly as well as a level one, and it has the further 



advantage of affording a choice of positions with 
reference to street frontage. It is planned to 
have the side with the porch face the south 
in order to give morning sun in the dining room 
and kitchen and pleasant exposure to the living 
room. The dimensions of the house are 44 ft. by 
31 ft. The height of the first floor ceiling is 8 ft. 
3 in. and the second, 7 ft. 6 in. 



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HOUSE No. 105, MENTION 

Designed by Albert M. Pyke and 

Charles F. Pyke 

IndianapoliSy Ind. 




First Floor 



IN a small house it is often desirable to have 
a larger space than the usual room provides 
and this is recognized in this plan in making 
the dining and living rooms practically one, giv- 
ing a room 15 ft. wide and 25 ft. long. If desired, 
this could be furnished as a living room, the 
dining table at other than meal times serving as 



Second Floor 

a library table. With the porch opening from the 
room and groups of windows at each end, it 
would give the appearance of a large house, all 
in very small space, actually. The dimensions of 
the house are 27 ft. 4 in. by 40 ft. and the 
ceiling heights 8 ft. 6 in. and 8 ft. for first and 
second floors. The house should face west. 



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HOUSE No. 106, MENTION 

Designed by 'John Barnard, Boston, Mass. 




First Floor 

DUTCH Colonial, which always gives a 
homelike character, is used to advantage 
in the design of this house. It is intended for 
a corner lot, or one having a frontage of 60 ft. 
or more. On a corner lot a garage could be placed 
at the dining room end of the house, with a 
covered walk leading to it that would balance 
the porch on the other end of the house. The 
lower story of the front is especially charming 
because of the nice relation between the bay 
.windows and the fan-light doorway. The interior 
is planned to give the appearance of a large 



Second Floor 

house with the principal rooms on either side 
of the hall. The kitchen is conveniently arranged 
and connected with the dining room by a pantry. 
The sink is placed in a bay window similar to 
those on the front of the house, insuring ample 
light and a pleasant place to work. The space 
at the left of the kitchen would serve admirably 
for a breakfast corner. The dimensions of the 
house are 46 ft. by 24 ft. and the heights of the 
first and second floors are 8 ft. and 7 ft. 8 in., 
respectively. The front should face southeast to 
insure sunny, pleasant rooms. 



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HOUSE No. 107, MENTION 

Designed by J. Ivan Dise, Detroit, Mich. 





First Floor 

THIS house is extremely simple in its design 
and would make an attractive and practical 
home. The porch extends across the front, with 
the assumption that the best outlook would be 
toward the street. For this reason, the house 
should set back a good distance from the street 
and a hedge would be advisable at the property 
line to afford privacy. The front should face 
west, thus giving morning sun in the dining 
room and a southern exposure to the living room. 
The plan shows a generous entrance hall, a good 



Second Floor 

sized living room, with the dining room opening 
from it. The kitchen is compact and there is 
a large pantry and convenient kitchen vestibule 
with space for a refrigerator. The second floor 
has two large bedrooms and a child's room and 
is well equipped with closets. The dimensions of 
the house are 41 ft. 6 in. by 26 ft. It would easily 
fit an inside lot of 50 ft. frontage, leaving ample 
space at the kitchen side for a drive to a garage. 
The ceiling height of the first floor is 8 ft. 2 in. 
and of the second, 7 ft. 6 in. 



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HOUSE No. 108, MENTION 

Designed by George H. Van Anda, New Tork, N. T. 





First Floor 



Second Floor 



THERE are very pleasing proportions and 
attractive roof lines in this design. The 
house is extremely simple and would for that 
reason be inexpensive to build. It is designed for 
an inside lot of narrow frontage with the street 
exposure toward the north. All the rooms are 
lighted from the sunny sides which would make 
them pleasant to live in, and in omitting the 
windows on the front, except for two small 
ones either side of the door, an individual charac- 



ter has been given the house. The house could be 
placed close to the street and the rear of the lot 
reserved for garden and lawn with a drive on 
the left side to a garage in the rear. The dimen- 
sions of the house are 26 ft. 8 in. by 30 ft. The 
height of the first floor rooms is 7 ft. 10 in., and 
of the second, 8 ft. The second floor Is well sup- 
plied with closets, and in the front bedroom the 
low space along the front wall is utilized for 
drawers and cupboards. 



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HOUSE No. 109, MENTION 

Designed by A. S. Crapsey, New Tork, N, T. 




First Floor 




Second Floor 



FOR a small country house it would be diffi- 
cult to find anything more charming than 
the simplicity of this design. The large wall sur- 
faces would give dignity to the brickwork and 
the grouping of the casement windows suggests 
comfortable, homelike rooms within. The plan 
is designed to give the greatest possible effect 
of space in a small house. The living room and 
dining room extend across the rear, which should 
face the south and a garden, to carry out the 



thought of the designer. This will provide two 
rooms that will be very livable and altogether 
charming. The entrance hall is unique with one 
side composed entirely of windows. The kitchen 
is compact and conveniently placed with respect 
to the dining room and entrance hall. The di- 
mensions of the house are 38 ft. 6 in. by 35 ft. 3 in. 
and the story heights 8 ft. and 7 ft. 6 in. for 
first and second floors respectively. Construc- 
tion is simple and comparatively inexpensive. 



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HOUSE No. 110, MENTION 

Designed by Ernest E. ff^eihe, San Francisco, Cal. 



First Floor 



THE first floor arrangement of this house is 
especially convenient. All the rooms are 
reached from the hall, and the dining room and 
living room are connected with a wide opening 
which increases the apparent size of the house. 
It can be placed on an inside lot of 50-ft. frontage 
with space at the left for a drive to a garage in 




Second Floor 



the rear. The garden development should be on 
the porch side and in the rear. The front of the 
house should face west or south to provide the 
best exposures for the principal rooms. The 
dimensions are 36 ft. by 34 ft. and the ceiling 
heights are 8 ft. 2 in. and 8 ft. 5 in. for the first 
and second floors, respectively. 



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HOUSE No. Ill 

Designed by Jefferson M. Hamilton, Minneapolis, Minn. 




THIS attractive little house is derived from 
English precedent and is so arranged on both 
floors as to give a sense of space. There is a large 
porch, which, if glazed, can be used to increase 
the size of the living room; it is connected direct- 
ly with the kitchen so that it may be ideally 
used for meals during the summer months. The 



Second Floor 



house would look equally well on a corner or an 
inside lot of 50-ft, frontage. The front should face 
east. The dimensions of the house are 30 ft. by 
30 ft. and the celling height is 8 ft. 5 in. for the 
first story and 8 ft. for the second. Brick of 
varied color tones are suggested, the darkest 
shade forming the diaper pattern. 



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HOUSE No. 112 

Designed by Emery J. Ohler, Dayton, O. 

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First Floor 



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A SIMPLE type of brick Colonial house that 
would adapt itself well to any suburban 
location. It should be placed near the street with 
the rear reserved for a garden and lawn. The 
front should face west, thereby giving a southern 
exposure to the living room and eastern to the 
dining room. The kitchen has a window over- 




Second Floor 

looking the street and is well placed with respect 
to the dining room and entrance hall. The bed- 
rooms are of good size and well equipped with 
closet space. The dimensions of the house are 
30 ft. 6 in. across the front, and 28 ft. 6 in. deep. 
The ceiling height of the first floor rooms is 8 ft. 
2 in. and of the second, 8 ft. 7 in. 



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HOUSE No. 113 

Designed by Ed. Berg and Stan. Pennock, Utica, N. T. 




First Floor 



THIS house has a dignity in its design that 
makes it particularly suited to brick con- 
struction. It would look well in a suburban loca- 
tion and would fit a corner or inside lot of 50-ft. 
frontage. The front should face east or south- 
east. A terrace along the front with the large 
living room windows opening onto it would be 




Second Floor 

an attractive feature. The garden, if on a corner 
lot, could be at the left opposite the porch, or at 
the rear, if an inside lot is selected. The first floor 
rooms are nicely grouped and the glazed porch 
is attractive viewed from either living room or 
dining room. The dimensions of the house are 
27 ft. by 31 ft., and both floors are 8 ft. 2 in. high. 



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HOUSE No. 114 

Designed by E. P. Crocheron and L. t. Hazard, New Tork, N. T. 





First Floor 



THIS house has a dignified Colonial doorway 
as its principal exterior feature. It is well 
suited to a suburban plot of 50-ft. frontage and 
can be placed near the street with the rear re- 
served for a lawn and garden treatment where 
privacy may be enjoyed. The kitchen is con- 



Second Floor 

veniently arranged and is equipped with built-in 
dressers instead of having a separate pantry. A 
window facing the street insures a pleasant out- 
look. The house is 31 ft.across the front and 26 
ft. 6 in. deep. The first story is 8 ft. 2 in. high 
and the second, 8 ft. The front should face west. 



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HOUSE No. lis 

Designed by Christian F. Rosberg, New Tork, N. T. 





First Floor 

THE entrance to this house is directly into 
the living room, but an ample vestibule with 
coat closet would shut off drafts in cold weather. 
The staircase starts from the living room, and 
with the vestibule, frames an ingle nook about the 
fireplace that would make a pleasant feature. 



Second Floor 

The porch overlooks the street and side lawn. 
Additional lawn and garden could be had in the 
rear in line with the dining room windows. The 
dimensions of the house are 26 ft. 4 in. by 28 ft. 
4 in. The ceiling heights are 8 ft. for both floors. 
The front should face east or south. 



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HOUSE No. 116 

Designed by F. Keally and 0. Staiber, New York, N. T. 





First Floor 



Second Floor 



THIS little house would be charming in its 
simplicity set well back from the street with 
an ample lawn. It could be set close to the lot 
line on the left to allow space for some garden 
treatment around the porch at the right. The 
plan is very compact on both floors and the 
principal rooms of the first floor are arranged to 
give as great a sense of space as possible. The 



kitchen is convenient, and supplied with closets 
and built-in dresser instead of a separate pantry. 
The dimensions of the house are 36 ft. 8 in. 
across the front and 26 ft. deep. The ceiling 
height of the first floor is 8 ft. and of the second, 
7 ft. 6 in. The house could be built inexpensively 
because of its compact plan and general sim- 
plicity. The front should face southwest. 



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HOUSE No. 117 

Designed by W. Marcovitch and W. Thies, Dayton, O. 





First Floor 



Second Floor 



THIS design recalls the substantial square 
brick houses that were built by the old sea 
captains of New England. It has full height 
square rooms on the second floor and a cozy ar- 
rangement of rooms on the first floor. The stair- 
case is at the rear and is attractively arranged 
in a separate projection with a large Colonial 
window on the landing. The living room fireplace 



is set in an ingle nook, thereby increasing the 
size of the room, which is of generous propor- 
tions. The porch is composed of a series of brick 
arches giving a cloister effect that is very quaint 
and would harmonize with an old-fashioned 
garden. The dimensions of the house are 2^ ft- 
by 28 ft. The height of the ceilings on both 
floors is 8 ft. The house should face southeast. 



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HOUSE No. 118 

Designed by Frank A. Spangenberg and Earl Martin, Buffalo, N. T. 




First Floor 



THIS attractive house has a plan which in- 
sures pleasant, sunny rooms at any time of 
the day and the best of light and air, since most 
of the rooms have windows on three sides. It 
will fit a hillside lot as well as a level one and 
would look particularly well on a corner lot. It 
is conveniently planned, the rooms are com- 
fortably large, the kitchen is convenient and 
well located with respect to the dining room and 




Second Floor 



entrance hall. A space for the sewing machine off 
the upstairs hall and a clothes chute (marked 
X on the plan) are special conveniences. The 
dimensions of the house are 32 ft. by 38 ft. and 
the ceiling heights are 8 ft. for both floors. It 
would be somewhat more expensive to build 
than a house with a square plan, but the result- 
ing fine room exposures would be worth the addi- 
tional outlay. The house should face southwest. 



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HOUSE No. 119 

Designed by R. L. Walker, New York, N. Y. 




First Floor 



THIS house based on modern English designs 
would be very attractive built. It could 
readily be adapted to a hilly or level site and 
could be placed in a number of different positions 
depending upon the shape of the lot and the 
exposure. If the lot is narrow the living room end 
can be turned toward the street as shown in the 
illustration. With a wide frontage and a good 
view at the rear, the kitchen and long side of 




Second Floor 



the living room should face the street. In either 
position the best exposures would be had for the 
principal rooms if the living room end faced south- 
east. The floor plan is attractive; the rooms are 
comfortably large and conveniently arranged. The 
front door can be reached directly from the kitch- 
en. The bedrooms have cross- ventilation and good 
closets. The dimensions of the house are 38 ft. 
by 26 ft. The ceiling height of both floors is 8 ft. 



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HOUSE No. 120 

Designed hy Henry H. Dean, New Tork, N.T. 




First Floor 



THERE is a sense of dignity in the design of 
this house that makes it appropriate for a 
suburban or small city location, and though in 
reality a small house, it would hold a prominent 
place among the usual large suburban houses. 
It could be placed near the street or set back 
some distance, depending upon the location 
of adjoining houses. There should be a level lawn 
with wide walk leading to the house to give it a 
proper setting. The principal rooms face the 




Second Floor 



Street and the front should be toward the 
southeast to obtain the best exposure. The ex- 
terior is designed for two tones of brick with the 
darker shade used for the corners and the pat- 
tern on the walls. The interior is arranged on the 
scheme of a large house with the principal rooms 
either side of the entrance hall. The dimensions 
of the house, including the porch, are 28 ft. 6 
in. by 38 ft. The height of the first floor rooms Is 
8 ft. and of the second, 7 ft. 10 in. 



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HOUSE No. 121 

Designed by F. J. Hartwig and L. J. Keimig 
New Tork, N. Y. 




First Floor 

THERE is an old fashioned simplicity about 
this house that makes it look like a com- 
fortable home. It has full square rooms and big 
windows after the manner of the houses of the 
late Georgian period in England. It would look 
well set up from the road with a drive at the left 
leading to a garage. A small flower garden could 
be planted at the rear of the porch, separated 
from the kitchen yard by a hedge or fence. The 
house should face northwest; this will permit 



Second Floor 
the morning sun to make the deep bay in the 
dining room a cheerful feature. The breakfast 
nook, if not desired, could be turned into a pan- 
try; and similarly, on the second floor the trunk 
storage, if desired, could be added to the bed- 
room making it the size of the living room below. 
The walls are suggested to be built of compar- 
atively smooth-surfaced brick. The extreme di- 
mensions of the house are 34 ft. by 28 ft. The first 
floor rooms are 8 ft. high; the second, 7 ft. 6 in. 



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HOUSE No. 122 

Designed by Simpson, Stenuart fef Drake, Seiuickley, Pa. 

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First Floor 



Second Floor 



THE massive chimney of this house suggests 
cheery open fires within. There is a sub- 
stantial look to the house that would make it 
appear, even when new, as though it had always 
existed. The interior arrangement is informal 
and it would be attractive to live in. All the 
bedrooms have cross ventilation. The ceiling 
heights are 9 ft. on the first floor and 8 ft. on the 



second. The kitchen is placed on the front so 
that the garden in the rear may be enjoyed 
from the living rooms and porch. The front 
should face northeast. If desired the long 
side of the living room may be turned toward 
the street, in which case it should face east. 
The dimensions are 29 ft. 6 in. by 30 ft. 3 in., and 
in either position it would fit a 50-ft. lot. 



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HOUSE No. 123 

Designed by H. C. McLaughlin and E. W. Drury, Chattanooga, 'Tenn. 





First Floor 



DIGNITY and formality characterize this 
design, making it suitable for a suburban 
or small city house. It should set back from the 
street to allow an ample approach and should 
face southeast. A grass or brick terrace across the 
front, bounded by a hedge, would give the house 
a splendid setting. It has high ceilings, the 
first floor being 9 ft. 6 in. high and the second, 9 
ft. and would command attention even among 
houses of much larger size. The front of the 



Second Floor 

house is given over to living and dining rooms 
with a vestibule at the entrance. The stairs are 
located separately at the rear and there is a 
bedroom on the first floor which could be used 
for a study if desired. Two of the rooms are 
provided with a fireplace, but the one on the 
second floor could be omitted if desired. The 
extreme dimensions of the house are 40 ft. by 
29 ft. A garage can be located in the rear with a 
drive on the right side. 



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HOUSE No. 124 

Designed by Wm. D, Lamdin, Baltimore, Md. 




THIS house could be built on practically any 
site that had a level space at the rear to 
afford a lawn on the dining room and porch 
side. It is of picturesque design with suggestions 
of the English cottage. All its sides are interest- 
ing and any one of them could face the street, the 
entrance facing northwest. It is conveniently 
planned and has a fine living room with light 
on three sides. The extreme dimensions of the 



house are 38 ft. by 32 ft. It would fit a corner 
lot well, but could also be placed on an inside 
lot of 50-ft. frontage. The rooms of the first floor 
are 8 ft. 3 in. high and those of the second, 7 ft. 
9 in. The illustration shows the entrance side. 
The side toward the garden is equally attractive, 
and the pleasant arrangement of the porch with 
the living room and dining room would make 
the house especially livable in warm weather. 



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HOUSE No. 125 

Designed by Daniel E. Shea, Springfield, Mass. 





First Floor 



A GOOD type of house for a closely built up 
suburban community. It can be placed 
near the street with the rear reserved for garden 
and lawn where quietness and privacy can be 
enjoyed. The drive to a garage could be at the 
left and a wall or fence with gate would close off 
the kitchen yard from the street. The kitchen is 
conveniently arranged with refrigerator room 
and large pantry, and affords a pleasant view 



Second Floor 

of the street. The porch is on the rear and reached 
from both living and dining rooms. The bed- 
rooms are of good size, the main one being the 
same as the living room. The house should face 
north or northwest to gain the best exposure 
for the living rooms. The extreme dimensions 
are 2^ f*. wide and 28 ft. deep. The ceiling 
height of both floors is 8 ft. The plan is very 
spacious for a small house. 



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HOUSE No. 126 

Designed by A. S. Nibecker, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif. 




First Floor 

THE simplicity of this house will commend 
it to many. It can be built inexpensively and 
its well arranged rooms will provide a comfort- 
able home. It can be placed in one of two differ- 
ent positions on the lot — with the entrance on 
the side as in the illustration, or on the front if 
the view of the street is more interesting, when 
this will be had from the porch. In either position 
the stair side should face northwest to give the 
best exposure to the living rooms. The bedrooms 




Second Floor 
have square ceilings and are well supplied with 
large closets. The first floor rooms are 8 ft. 4 in. 
high, and the second 8 ft. The dimensions of the 
house are 27 ft. 6 in. by 30 ft. 6 in., making it 
suitable for a lot of 50-ft. frontage. Dark-toned 
brick with occasional darker headers is recom- 
mended for the walls with the diaper pattern in 
the second story formed with dark headers. The 
roof should preferably be of slate and the ex- 
terior woodwork brown stained. 



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HOUSE No. 127 

Designed by Albert Harkness, Providence, R. I. 





First Floor 
^HERE is a comfortable cottage-like char- 
-■- acter to this house that would make it 
especially desirable for a country or small town 
home. Its simple gable roof broken by dormers 
would be very attractive and it has good wall 
spaces for vines to ramble over. The plan of 
both floors is direct and simple; the living room 
is of pleasing proportions and opens directly 
on the porch, which commands a view of the 
street and garden space. The house could be 



Second Floor 
placed on a 50-ft. lot with sufficient space at the 
left for a drive to a garage, and the garden could 
be arranged about the porch and in view of the 
dining room. The house should face southwest. 
Weathered timber work in the dormers is sug- 
gested filled in with brick. The dimensions of 
the house are 37 ft. across the front and 28 ft. 
deep. The first floor rooms are 8 ft. i in. high 
and the second,7 ft. 8 in. All bedrooms are amply 
lighted and have cross-ventilation. 



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HOUSE No. 128 

Designed by Theodore Ross, New York, N. T. 





First Floor 

ALL sides of this house are interesting, and it 
• could face the street as shown in the illus- 
tration, or the dining room could face the street; 
either way it would fit a 50-ft. lot. To obtain 
the best exposure for the principal rooms the 
long side of the living room should face south- 
east. The house could be set back from the 
street and the garden arranged in front, or the 
garden might be in the rear reached by a French 



Second Floor 

window from the rear of the dining room. The 
house is of English Tudor design and could be 
carried out nicely in brick with suggestions of 
half timber work in weathered oak or chestnut 
around the porch. The dimensions are 28 ft. 
across the front and 29 ft. deep. The rooms 
of both first and second floors are 8 ft. 6 in, high. 
The plan is compact and presents a very livable 
arrangement with especially good bedrooms. - 



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HOUSE No. 129 

Designed by Ernest Wilson Boyer, Pittsburgh, Pa. 




First Floor 



THE design of this house is based on no 
special style and it would accordingly 
harmonize with the houses of any community. 
It would be best located on a corner lot with the 
front parallel with the long frontage. In this 
arrangement a garage could be placed at the 
right end of the lot opposite the porch and with 
a short drive from the street. The garden would 
fit in well between the porch and garage. The 




Second Floor 



front of the house should preferably face the 
southwest; this will give good exposure to the 
principal rooms and morning sun to make the 
kitchen cheerful. The dimensions are 38 ft. 6 in. 
by 27 ft. 8 in. The rooms of both floors are 8 ft. 
high and the plans show a compact arrangement. 
The first floor rooms are arranged to give a 
feeling of space and the bedrooms are well 
equipped with closets. 



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HOUSE No. 130 

Designed by Alfred Cookman Cass, Wilmington, Del. 




First Floor 




' I ^HIS is an essentially suburban type of 
-*- house suggestive of the prim houses built 
in and around Philadelphia in Colonial days. 
It will make a dignified addition to any resi- 
dential street. The plan is very compact and the 
simplicity of construction would enable it to be 
built inexpensively. The porch is on the rear. 



Second Floor 



reached from the dining room. A pleasant garden 
could be arranged on this part of the lot, se- 
cluded from the street. The drying yard could 
be enclosed in a lattice fence on the kitchen 
side. The dimensions of the house are 26 ft. 9 in. 
by 34 ft. 8 in. The ceiling heights for first and 
second floors are 8 ft. and 7 ft. 6 in.^ respectively^ 



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HOUSE No. 131 

Designed by Alexander Beresniakoff and Wm. Koellmer, New Tork, N. T. 




A COLONIAL house that would look well set 
close to the street in a suburb or small town, 
with the left side of the space in the rear devoted 
to a garden. The remainder of the plot can be 
occupied by a garage, drying yard, and kitchen 
garden. The dimensions of the house are 32 ft. 
by 32 ft. It would fit a 50-ft. lot or could occupy 




Second Floor 



a corner lot to advantage. The front should face 
southeast to give the best exposure to the living 
rooms. The height of the first floor rooms is 8 
ft. and of the second, 7 ft. 8 in. The enclosed 
stoop, the row lock sill course, and the brick 
quoins add a charm consistent with the simple 
lines of the facade. 



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HOUSE No. 132 

Designed by I. F. Heyl and J. W. McClymont, New Tork, N. T. 





THIS design shows the simplest Colonial 
treatment and is equally suitable for a 
suburban or small town location. It can be placed 
close to the street with the rear of the lot re- 
served for a lawn and garden to be enjoyed from 
the porch. A frontage of 50 ft. will be ample. The 



Second Floor 

rooms on the first floor are independent units 
without wide connecting doorways. This affords 
coziness without making the house appear small. 
The dimensions are 30 ft. 6 in. by 32 ft. 8 in. 
The floor heights are 8 ft. 4 in. and 8 ft. for first 
and second floors. The front should face west. 



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HOUSE No. 133 

Designed by William J. Mooney^ Jamaica Plain, Mass. 




First Floor 



THIS interesting little house is derived from 
the English cottage. It has a nice relation 
between the rooms on both floors; the living 
room is large, well lighted and has a pleasant 
feature in the fireplace ingle with seats on either 
side. The hall is simply a vestibule space with an 
entrance to the kitchen through a coat closet. 
The kitchen is conveniently arranged. The 




Second Floor 



dimensions of the house are 30 ft. by 31 ft. 
It could be located on a 50-ft. lot with the 
entrance to the garage at the right. The lawn 
and garden could be at the rear, opposite the 
porch. On the second floor there are three bed- 
rooms reached from an ample hall. The ceiling 
heights are 8 ft. 3 in. and 8 ft. The- front should 
face northeast. 



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HOUSE No. 134 

Designed by M. Boulicault, St. Louis, Mo. 




First Floor 



Second Floor 



THIS house is planned to be placed near the tration shows a view of the rear. The di- 

street, and facing the northwest. The living mensions are 33 ft. by 26 ft. 6 in. The ceiling 

rooms will have southern exposure and the rear heights are 8 ft. 6 in. in both stories. The first 

of the lot should be developed with a lawn and floor is pleasantly arranged and the second has 

garden to afford a pleasant outlook. The illus- good bedrooms with ample closet space. 



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HOUSE No. 135 

Designed by Charles Dana Loomis, New Tork, N. T. 




First Floor 



A SIMPLE house that would look equally well 
on a level lot or one sloping toward the 
street. It could be placed in two different posi- 
tions, depending upon the frontage. If the lot 
is narrow the living room end could be turned 
toward the street, and if the frontage is 60 ft. or 
more it could be placed as shown in the illus- 
tration. In either case the end of the living 




Second Floor 

room should face south or southwest. The plan 
would make a very livable house. The principal 
rooms are arranged to make the interior look as 
large as possible and the kitchen is most con- 
venient. The second floor is well provided with 
closet space. The dimensions are 35 ft. 4 in. 
by 23 ft. 5 in. The height of the first floor rooms is 
8 ft. and the second, 7 ft. 10 in. 



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HOUSE No. 136 

Designed by Howard A. Goodspeed, West Medford, Mass. 




First Floor 



THIS house is modern in character but pos- 
sesses many Colonial features. It could be 
placed on a corner lot with the front on the 
narrow side as shown in the illustration, or it 
could equally well occupy an inside lot. The 
garage in the first arrangement could be reached 
from the side street, and in the other by a drive 
past the kitchen. The garden in either arrange- 




Second Floor 



ment would be at the left side of the rear and 
viewed from the porch and dining room. The 
front should face the southeast to give sunny 
exposures to the principal rooms. The living 
room is especially attractive with the broad bay 
window. The dimensions of the house are 38 ft. 
6 in. across the front and 28 ft. deep; the floor 
heights are 7 ft. 10 in. and 7 ft. 6 in. 



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Designed by Robbins Lewis Conn, New Tork, N. T. 




First Floor 



THIS design shows a dignified handling of 
the Colonial style and is a good type of 
house for a suburban location. It can be placed 
near the street. The outlook for the principal 
rooms is from the front, and to obtain the best 
exposure it should face north; this gives morning 
sun in the dining room and sun all day in the 



Second Floor 



living room. The house would best fit a corner 
lot with the long side the principal frontage. 
A lawn and garden could then be had opposite 
the porch and a drive to the garage at the rear 
past the kitchen. The dimensions of the house 
are 43 ft. 6 in. by 26 ft. The first floor rooms are 
8 ft. 6 in. high and the second, 7 ft. 9 in. 



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HOUSE No. 138 

Designed by Fritz Steffens and Earl Purdy, Ithaca, N. Y. 



First Floor 

A SIMPLE house derived from the style of the 
English cottage that could be placed close 
to the street with good effect. It should face 
west, giving morning sun in the dining room and 
a southern exposure to the porch. If the lot on 
which it is placed is sufficiently wide, the south 
side could be used for the garden and lawn, where 
it would be pleasantly viewed from the porch. 




Second Floor 

The arrangement of the rooms is compact and 
convenient. The dimensions of the house are 
30 ft. by 25 ft. The rooms of the first floor are 
8 ft. 6 in. high and those of the second, 8 ft. 
All the bedrooms have cross ventilation and 
good closets. There is good storage space in the 
attic. The house could be built inexpensively 
because of its simple composition. 



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HOUSE No. 139 

Designed by Herman Brookman and Karl Bradley, New Tork, N. T. 




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First Floor 

THERE is solidity and an expression of good 
breeding about this house that would make 
it a welcome addition to the best community. 
It is modeled after the small Georgian houses of 
England. It would look well placed close to the 
road and if on a corner lot with the front par- 
allel to the long side, the garage could be placed 
at the extreme right, opposite the porch with 
the garden between. A hedge along the street 



Second Floor 

will give a setting to the house and afford privacy 
for the garden. A good exposure would be north- 
west for the front. This will give morning sun in 
the dining room and afternoon sun for the living 
room and garden. The dimensions of the house 
are 43 ft. by 21 ft. 2 in. The rooms are of good 
size; the ceiling height on the first floor is 7 ft. 
10 in. and on the second, 7 ft. 6 in. A place for 
the sewing machine upstairs is a convenience. 



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First Floor 



HOUSE No. 140 

Designed by Claude Bragdon 
Rochester, N. T. 




Second Floor 



THERE is a special compactness about the street. It can face either southeast or southwest 

plan of this house and a simplicity in its ex- and have pleasant, sunny living rooms. The 

terior design that would make it inexpensive height of the first floor is 7 ft. 10 in. and the 

to build. It furthermore has a fine sense of dig- second, 7 ft. 6 in. The extreme dimensions of 

nity and it would look well in any suburban the house are 25 ft. by 2,9 ft. 



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HOUSE No. 141 

Designed by Edward F. Maker, Boston, Mass. 



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First Floor 

IF well set back from the road this house 
could face as shown in the illustration with 
the garden in front and the entrance on the 
side. Otherwise it would be better to turn the 
narrow end to the street with the garden in the 
rear, reached from the porch. In either arrange- 
ment the entrance side should face north. The 




Second Floor 
house has comfortable rooms with square ceil- 
ings, the first floor is 8 ft. i in. high and the 
second, 7 ft. 6 in. The circular stairs are a 
pleasant feature of the interior. The dimensions 
are 33 ft. 8 in. by 22 ft. 8 in. The brick used for 
the walls is laid in such a manner as to give a 
small all-over diamond pattern. 



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HOUSE No. 142 

Designed by Dwight E. Smith, New Haven, Conn 

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First Floor 

A COLONIAL cottage design with all the char- 
acter of the simple village type so much ad- 
mired. It can be placed near the street and would 
look equally well on a corner or an inside lot of 
50-ft. frontage. The dimensions of the house are 
34 ft. 8 in. wide and 28 ft. deep. The front should 
face the southeast to have morning sun in the 



Second Floor 
dining room. Windows on three sides of the 
living room will give sun all day, and the garden, 
if located in line with the porch, will have the 
best exposure. The kitchen is of good size and 
there are in addition a large pantry and entry. 
The rooms on the first floor are 7 ft. 10 in. high 
and on the second, 7 ft. 6 in. 



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HOUSE No. 143 

Designed by R. H. Douglas, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

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First Floor 

THIS house has a dignity in its design that 
would make it prominent even among 
houses of much larger size. It would be well 
suited to a suburban location and would be best 
placed where the view is toward the street. 
The principal rooms are across the front and the 
exposure should be southeast to insure their 
being sunny and pleasant. A terrace across the 
front connects the side porch with the entrance, 
and French windows in living and dining rooms 



Second Floor 

give access to the terrace. This feature makes 
the house suitable for a site sloping up from the 
street. It could equally well be adapted to a level 
site in which case the terrace could be omitted 
if desired. The dimensions of the house are 
45 ft. by 2o ft. The rooms are 8 ft. high on 
both floors. The roof of the porch is flat and is 
reached by a French window from the main 
bedroom. This room is the same size as the living 
room and is lighted from three sides. 



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HOUSE No. 144 

Designed by Albert Sturr, New Tork, N. T. 




First Floor 



THERE is a sturdy appearance to this bungalow that 
would make it especially attractive in brick. The 
front is given over to the living and dining rooms, and 
opening from a common hall is an independent group of 
three bedrooms and the kitchen. A fourth bedroom can 
be had in the roof of the main part. The house should 

face the south- 
east. Its dimen- 
sions are 57 ft. by 
31 ft. 6 in. The 
ceiling height of 
the first story is 
8 ft. The trim 
around openings 
is meant to be 
laid in brick of 
a different color 
tone from those 
in the walls giv- 
ing a pleasing 
Second Floor _1J .,. — I — ^ U — effect. 




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HOUSE No. 145 

Designed by Olaf TFilliam Shelgren, Buffalo, N. T. 




First Floor 



INDIVIDUALITY marks this little house 
that would be a pleasure to find in any street. 
It could be placed close to the street with a 
boundary hedge as suggested in the illustra- 
tion, and the rear reserved for garden and lawn. 
The porch and dining room will thus have a 
pleasant outlook. A garage can be located on the 
right. The front should face northeast to afford 




Second Floor 

the best exposure for the living rooms. Only the 
minimum space is given to the entrance hall, 
but it is directly connected with every room on 
the first floor. The stairs are attractive with the 
large window toward the street. The dimensions 
of the house are 35 ft. by 27 ft. The first floor 
rooms are 8 ft. high and the second, 7 ft. 10 In. 
There is storage space in the attic. 



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HOUSE No. 146 

Designed by Wallace M. Baxter, Miami, Fla. 



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First Floor 



THIS house would be appropriate for a 
narrow lot on a suburban street which 
would afford a pleasant outlook from the attrac- 
tive living room bay. The extreme width of the 
house is 35 ft. and its depth 28 ft. It could occupy 
a 50-ft. frontage with ample space for a drive 
at the right side to a garage in the rear. The 
house should face east to give pleasant exposures 



Second Floor 

to the principal rooms and the garden space at 
the rear. A flower garden and lawn could be 
made the width of the terrace beyond the dining 
room. The first floor rooms are 8 ft. 4 in. high 
and the second, 7 ft. 10 in. The plans of both 
floors show a compact and convenient arrange- 
ment. The roof of the bay window is metal, 
and of the house, slate or shingle tile. 



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HOUSE No. 147 

Designed by Ralph H. Hannaford, Boston, Mass. 



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Second Floor 




First Floor 



FOR those 
seeking in- 
dividuality in 
a home this 
bungalow will 
appeal. Its chief 
feature is an open timbered, high ceiled living 
room. The other rooms are 8 ft. high. All of the 
rooms have windows on three sides and this 



makes it particularly suitable for a warm cli- 
mate. Although it contains no more space than 
many other of the houses illustrated here, it has 
greater outside wall area, and this with the 
extra heating facilities required in winter would 
make it more expensive to build. It would be best 
located on a deep corner lot placed so the dining 
room would face east. Its dimensions are 37 ft. 8 
in. by 60 ft. 6 in. Plans do not include garage. 



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HOUSE No. 148 

Designed by Norman Biard Baker, New Tork, N. T. 





Second Floor 



NOTHING more suitable for a village or 
country home could be had than this in- 
formal cottage. Its low sloping roofs create at 
once an atmosphere of home; there is, however, 
ample room in the second story gained by long 
dormers on the side and rear. The living room 
is of good size and connected directly with the 
porch and overlooking the space that should be 



developed as a garden. The house can be placed 
close to the road and a hedge will afford privacy 
as shown in the illustration. The front should 
face the east. Its maximum dimensions are 32 
ft. by 31 ft. It could be placed on a 50-ft. lot 
with sufficient space reserved at the right for 
an entrance to a garage. Ceiling heights are 7 ft. 
10 in. on both floors. 



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HOUSE No. 149 

Designed by Daniel E. Shea, Springfield, Mass, 



First Floor 



TVyfODERN English work is the inspiration 
-»■'■■- for the design of this house, which would 
be distinctive in any location. It could readily 
be adapted to a sloping or irregular site if there 
were a level space at the rear to form a lawn and 
garden across the living and dining rooms. These 
rooms should have the best exposure and the 
street front should, therefore, face northwest. 




Second Floor 



The first floor rooms are nicely grouped and the 
stairs are especially attractive with the large 
window. Entrance to a garage could be had at 
the left, past the kitchen. The dimensions of the 
house are 31 ft. by 35 ft. The ceiling height of 
both stories is 8 ft. Although the roof is low in 
front, the bedrooms have full height because the 
rear is two stories high. 



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HOUSE No. 150 

Designed by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, Calif. 




ROOF 




Second Floor 



THIS simple cottage gives the impression of 
a bungalow because of the low sloping 
roof. It has a full second story, however, with 
windows in a gable and generous dormers on the 
sides and rear. The extreme dimensions of the 
house are 39 ft. wide, 32 ft. deep. The first floor 
has an attractive entrance hall, reached from the 
kitchen through the pantry. The sitting porch 



opens directly from the living room. The first 
floor rooms are 8 ft. 6 in. high and the second, 8 
ft. The house should preferably face northeast, 
thereby providing morning sun in the dining 
room and a pleasant exposure for the living room 
and garden which could be in the rear opposite 
the porch. The remainder of the rear plot could 
be devoted to the drying green and garage space. 



How to Build a House 

By Aymar Embury II, Architect 

BUILDING a house may be one of the pleasantest things in the world, 
or it may be sheer misery, depending first upon the temperament of 
the house builder and second upon the competence of the architect and 
contractor who are jointly responsible for the carrying out of the owner's 
ideas as to what a house is. To get the most fun out of building, and to 
-r achieve the best results, a certain amount of knowledge of the methods of 
building is necessary; not perhaps of the actual mechanical processes of 
mason and carpenter work or plumbing, but of what the relationship is 
between the owner and the people employed to do the work. 

To an architect it is always a new surprise when he finds that a man, 
contemplating an enterprise which involves a very considerable sum of 
money, knows so little how to disburse it wisely; and yet it should not be 
surprising; most people build only once, and the building business is in 
many ways different from any other business in that one buys something 
which cannot be seen in advance, even in sample. Also very many people 
cannot "read drawings"; in other words, they are unable to visualize what 
they are buying. 

Yet building of a/iy kind should be a source of infinite pleasure to all 
concerned in it; it is in a limited way an act of creation; it should be the 
creation of something not only useful, but beautiful; and when the struc- 
ture is a home, it is a thing which should be more than an inanimate 
object, a mere shelter from wind and weather; it should possess a person- 
ality, fitting to its owner and of infinite and continuing delight to him. 

Selection of Site 

The first step in building any house is to choose its location; the best 
of houses badly placed can never be a successful home. And by "badly 
placed" I do not mean the direction it faces or its height in relation to 
surroundings, but its location in relation to the tastes, habits of life, and 
means of its owner. It is easy enough to say that halfway up a mountain 
side with an extended view and a southern exposure is an ideal site for a 
home; superficially it may be, but if it is so inaccessible that its owner 
cannot reach it without an exhausting journey from his place of business, 
or if good water and a safe sewage disposal system are only obtainable at 
prohibitive cost, it is not only not a good site, it is the worst of sites. For 
myself, I think good neighbors the best of arguments for the choice of a 
site. After this come various other factors which must be considered 
separately for every family; as the cost of the property, convenience to 

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64 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

transportation, good schools for the children, water, gas, electricity, a 
sewage system, and good streets. 

In connection with cost, it must be remembered that the cost per 
acre or per square foot of land has little to do with its value; and in com- 
paring property offered for the same price in different localities one must 
inquire into the factors which make for value; whether there are public 
service companies supplying the household needs, whether the site is so 
situated as to render building difficult or expensive, and whether the 
character of the neighborhood is sufficiently stable so that property values 
will not decline. 

Roughly outlined, then, the following essentials may be stated: a lot 
large enough for the purpose desired, with good drainage to prevent damp- 
ness in the house, and offering a pleasant outlook with winter's sun and 
summer's breeze, a good neighborhood with churches and schools, conve- 
nient transportation and adequate gas, electric, water, and sewage systems. 

Financing the House 

After the property has been selected there usually arises the question 
of financing the purchase and the construction; and first it should be said, 
don't try to build on a shoestring. Some people do and get away with it; 
others lose the shoestring and their peace of mind. You should have in 
hand at least a third of the cost of the property and house before beginning. 
You should be sure to have a clear title to the property, and lest this 
warning seem ridiculous, let me say that many people begin building on "" 
property which they have only contracted to buy on monthly payments, 
and are sometimes very badly stuck. 

Therefore, make sure that the title to your property is clear; prefer- 
ably a title guaranteed by a reputable title guaranty company; then if 
you need money to build, borrow the amount on mortgage. Most real 
estate agents or development companies are in touch with some source 
from which you can borrow money. The cheapest and best way, however, 
is to buy shares of stock in a well-managed and conservative building 
loan corporation, and borrow from it. 

Selecting the Architect 

The next step is the selection of an architect. Here also it pays to be 
cautious; the services of a capable man will be worth many times more 
than he charges you; the services of a poor, careless or incompetent man 
are useless. Nor can I tell you how to select a capable man; he need not 
be old or have built many houses under his own name if he has had good 



THE HOME OF BEAUTY 65 

training in a well managed office, but he should know how to make (and 
expect as a matter of course to make) all the drawings necessary to the 
construction of a building; and these drawings include beside little sketches 
such as are shown in this book, plans of each floor and elevations of each 
side drawn to the scale of one quarter of an inch to the foot, and also 
drawings of more complicated pieces of construction at one-half or three- 
quarters inch scale and even drawings at full size of all moldings and 
ornament. 

Then, too, he should furnish a complete and detailed specification 
describing all materials, processes of manufacture and method of erection 
of everything that goes into a house. The amount of work that an archi- 
tect does is little appreciated by the average client; I venture to say that 
no one not an architect realizes the number of days which have gone to 
prepare any one of the designs published here, for it is not the actual 
drawing that has taken so long, but the care and thought necessary to 
secure the maximum of useable space in each story and to perfect the 
appearance of the exterior. I have no doubt at all that if I were paying 
a draftsman to make such sketches, each would cost me at least a hundred 
and fifty dollars; perhaps much more, depending upon how readily we 
could find a solution of the problem which would best fit the required 
site. One piece of advice I can give; the man who is willing to work very 
cheaply is not worth having; he cannot give you anything which is of 
any value for your money. The minimum fee established by the American 
Institute of Architects is 6% of the cost. I charge io% on all residence 
work, and lose money on all houses which cost under ten thousand dollars, 
and on many which cost more. These fees include superintendence. 

The designs which appear in this book have been made by architects 
and architectural draftsmen who worked them out from a program that 
was written to express the conditions that would be met in a house to 
accommodate the average American family of moderate income. They 
have received similar careful consideration by their designers, as indicated 
in the preceding paragraphs, and while not designed in compliance with 
the conditions of an individual owner, as the usual architect's house is, 
they represent perhaps the highest development of small house design that 
is possible without the owner individually engaging an architect's services. 

What the Architect Does 

It may be that a prospective owner of one of these houses will want 
to consult an architect and have certain revisions made that would make 
the design he liked correspond more closely to his individual tastes. In 
that event, or not, it is of interest and value for an owner to have a proper 



66 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

conception of the function of an architect, if he is to appreciate the value 
of these designs or if he is to have harmonious relations with an architect 
whom he might employ. Briefly, his duties are first to develop the client's 
ideas into workable form by means of sketches, so that the size and 
general appearance of the building may be agreed upon, and an approxi- 
mate cost determined. This is not always an easy thing to do and needs 
patience and good humour on both sides. 

Also you must remember that an architect cannot by some magic 
process make a big house cost as little as a small one, nor can he at the 
present time tell you very closely before the working drawings are made 
what the cost will be — nobody can — and you should remember that 
an architect is employed to design your house, not to construct it (that is 
the contractor's province), and that his duty is primarily to get your rough 
ideas as to the number and sizes of rooms, and materials of construction 
into the most economical, practical, durable and beautiful form he can. 

Determine What You Want 

It will help you a lot if you actually know what size rooms you desire, 
not in terms of "a room as big as Mrs. Green's," but in terms of feet and 
inches. Measure the dimensions of rooms you like and note them down. 
Your architect can tell you roughly whether you have in mind a house 
that can or cannot be built for what you want to spend, if you can come 
to him with a real idea of sizes of rooms and of what materials you desire. 
Nine out of ten of my clients say that they want first a good big living 
room, which in the case of strangers means to me absolutely nothing at 
all. It may be thirteen by eighteen feet or it may be thirty by eighty. A 
good, big living room for myself would be seventeen by thirty; but I 
haven't one anything like so big — I can't afford one. 

Another thing on which you should inform yourself before building 
is the heights of ceilings. In the small house it is almost an axiom that 
the lower the ceiling the better the house will look; and you should before 
building your own house know just what ceiling height you like best in 
rooms of the size yours will be. You are probably accustomed to a ceiling 
between eight and a half feet and nine feet high, but few of the old Colonial 
houses you have thought so quaint and charming have ceilings as high as 
that: most of them are under eight feet high and many only about seven; 
the same thing is true of the small English and French houses. Look at 
somebody else's ceilings before you decide; don't think that because you 
have grown used to the height of yours you really prefer that height. 

This getting used to things is too often confounded with a real prefer- 
ence. It is the style (or the custom) just now, to open up houses in the 



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interior to an extent which is often unwise. Before you have double door- 
ways between the hall and the living room and the hall and the dining 
room think it over a bit. Which do you really prefer, a sense of space as 
you enter your house or intimacy and coziness in the rooms? Your archi- 
tect cannot decide these things for you; you must do it for yourself. The 
same applies to the stairs; in most houses the foot of the stairs is near 
the entrance door. Why? Does everyone who enters your house go up- 
stairs at once; or do you want to pass the front door every time you go 
upstairs? In many households there are times when the woman of the 
house most emphatically does not want to pass the front door (especially 
if it is not thoroughly curtained) when she goes to the bed room to fix her 
hair. There are several parts of every small house which should be reached 
direct from the staircase, but the front door is not one of them. 

Another good old die-hard tradition is that the main rooms should 
face the street. Most of us by now have realized that the entrance door 
and the sitting porch should not be combined; why we still stick the main 
rooms on the street is something of a mystery; but most of us do it. The 
main rooms should be placed where the sun and air and outlook are best — 
if the street side is that side, well and good — place the rooms on that side. 
But if the street side is the north, and we make for ourselves a pleasant, 
old fashioned garden in our back yard, why let's get the benefit of it and 
face the rooms where they ought to be with our piazza or sun room or 
whatever it may be where it will be pleasantest to use. Of course, if we have 
a badly kept, ill smelling back yard — but, of course, we haven't. Or if our 
neighbors have we wouldn't want that as our sole outlook from the living 
room. Let's not pick that kind of neighbor if we can help it. 

I am not going to say much about the kitchen. No two women will 
ever agree on any point except one — that the architect knows nothing 
about a kitchen and that their kitchens were only saved from utter im- 
practicability by their own unaided efforts, but if I may venture to sug- 
gest, in a house the size of those shown in this book, it should be very 
compact and conveniently arranged so that the household work may be 
done with the fewest steps; and the pantries need no separate sinks, al- 
though a pantry is a convenient method of interposing two doors between 
the kitchen and the dining room so that the menu will not be announced 
to the diners by its odor. 

Again on the second floor there is one point on which present custom 
seems unsettled: I mean as regards sleeping porches. Personally, I do not 
believe we have as a nation yet settled how we want to sleep; if we are to 
have sleeping porches for everybody, the sensible thing would be to do 
away with bed rooms and use dressing rooms only, for sleeping porches. 



68 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

especially when enclosed and heated as is so often the case, become prac- 
tically rooms so that the bed rooms have little or no outside air, and are 
dark, stuffy and unpleasant. For myself, I prefer a well-ventilated bed 
room to all the sleeping porches in the world. They are unsightly make- 
shift affairs; but if we are to have them, let us have proper ones, perma- 
nently useful, each with its dressing room. 

As to the exterior, most of our American towns are such heterogeneous 
collections of unrelated styles that it doesn't make much difference 
what style we choose for our house just so it is adapted to our climate and 
our conditions of living. We all of us laugh at the "gents" who some 
forty years ago built remarkable adaptations of medieval castles up and 
down the Hudson River; we ought not to pick a type so obviously inap- 
propriate to modern methods of living as they did, and yet some of us are 
doing it to-day — flat topped adobe mission buildings are as much out of 
place in the northern and eastern states as the medieval castle. 

Nor is it necessary to be "individual" by being ridiculously "differ- 
ent"; any more than it is necessary to push conservatism to fatuity. There 
is plenty of room for variety and the appropriate expression of one's 
natural tastes and preferences in the derivatives from the Georgian, Colo- 
nial, English and French types of houses which are fitted to our climate 
and our civilization. It is not of importance which we choose; only it must 
be carefully designed and honestly constructed; not a sham in which a 
natural layout of space in plan has been twisted and contorted to satisfy 
a false notion of the picturesque. 

Architect's Plans a Necessity 

Let us suppose you have no architect. If you go to a builder and tell 
him you want a house like some other in the town, it is almost certain 
that you will be disappointed either in the appearance of your house or in 
the amount of space you find you have in your rooms, for you will almost 
certainly want to build like the other, but with a Jew minor changes ^ and 
these "minor" changes will affect places you never thought of. Also, you 
will pay for your plans, although you think you are saving the architect's 
fee, for no builder can build without drawings of some kind. These cost 
him money and you pay for them. You will also pay in loss of space and 
of appearance which an architect is trained to avoid, and further, if you 
give the house direct to the builder you will probably pay him more for 
the work than you could obtain it for were you to send out plans for bids 
to several builders. Most emphatically you need plans, whether selected 
from this book, or purchased from an architect, or revised by an architect 
to meet your individual needs from plans of which sketches are given here. 



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These plans you will send out for estimate to several builders, and 
will, or should, accept the lowest estimate. You should not send out plans 
to any builder to whom you are not willing to give the job if his price is 
low; it costs a builder a considerable sum of money to estimate, and to 
ask a man to estimate simply that you may use his price as a check on the 
builder you have already selected is in a way swindling him out of the 
money it costs him to estimate. Also you should never sign a contract 
with a builder whom you believe to be shifty or careless just because his 
price is low, on the chance that you may be able to hold him to the strict 
performance of his duty. In theory you can, but in practice you cannot; 
and if you are uneasy about every stick of timber and every hod of mor- 
tar that is built into your house, you will have no pleasure at all in build- 
ing it, and will be afraid to light an open fire for fear of a defective chim- 
ney. It is not hard to find a good builder and, contrary to what I find to 
be a general impression, the very great majority of builders are honest 
and honorable, though a smaller number, but still a majority, are capable. 

Relations withYour Builder 

When you sign your contract remember that, like all contracts, it is 
two-sided; not only does the contractor agree to build your house in a 
certain way, and to finish it at a certain time, but you agree to pay for it 
in a certain way and at a certain time, and must make your arrangements 
to fulfill your side of the contract if you expect him to abide by his; and 
it is sound law that if you fail to make your payments when due, your 
contractor may consider his contract to be at an end. Further, you must 
remember that your contractor does not and cannot agree to do, as the 
house progresses, any little item which may come into your mind as being 
a desirable thing to have; a fair contractor will make without charge any 
changes which involve no extra expense to him, or at cost any changes 
which do involve extra expense; but you must not think him "mean," 
"disobliging," or "insulting" when he declines to change the positions 
of doors or electric outlets after they are put up, without being paid for 
doing it; and yet many people, especially those who visit the job often, 
expect the contractor to make changes which they say "cost practically 
nothing" without charge, and are surprised and disgusted when he refuses 
to do so. Minor changes during the progress of the work are a constant 
annoyance to the builder, and their cost mounts up amazingly. 

Another thing that the owner should never do, and which very many 
owners do do, is to give instructions to individual workmen on the job. 
If you want something done, tell the architect if there is one; if there isn't, 
tell the builder. The individual workman or even the foreman has not any 



70 THE HOME OF BEAUTY 

authority to do what you want; he is not your employee and you have no 
business to direct somebody else's employees. You are entitled to inspect 
your house as much and as continuously as you please. Your contract 
provides for what you shall do when you change your mind; follow that 
and you will be contented in the end; but walk about the job telling the 
plumber's man to move the bath tub to the other side of the room and the 
tin smith to put that down-spout around the corner, and you will either find 
your instructions are not followed, or at the end of the job you will have 
a bill for extra work which will make you sorry for yourself, and you will 
have ordered every item without realizing that you were authorizing an extra. 

I think that more unpleasantness in building arises from two causes, 
distrust of the architect and builder, and constant interference with work- 
men, than from all other causes combined, and no building can be done 
happily where these things exist. I have clients who go to the job constantly 
and bring happiness with them not only to the architect and the builder 
but to the individual mechanics; they are interested in our work — that 
pleases us; they believe in us — that flatters us, and we all of us work to 
give them the kind of house they want; changes are made promptly, 
cheaply and with a feeling that they are for the best. Then there is another 
type of client who never puts his foot on the job without nagging or 
faultfinding or complaining that he "was never informed of this" or "he 
didn't understand this was to be that way." In the end we grow to hate 
the sight of him; we do what he wants not because It is best for the job 
but to still his querulous voice, and he pays for every change and pays 
well for it. We have no pleasure in the work, and he has none either, un- 
less he is one of those happily rare individuals who takes pleasure in 
making other people unhappy; and nine times out of ten his changes will 
have hurt rather than helped his house. 

The client I like best, and the one the builder prefers, is the owner 
who understands plans, reads his specifications, knows what the builder 
has agreed to furnish him and insists on it, but does not insist on the 
builder doing something he has not agreed to do or that is foolish in itself. 
Above all, we fear the man who accepts every piece of advice given him 
by casual acquaintances who have just built themselves a house. If your 
architect is worth hiring, his advice is worth following; if you select your 
builder because he knows his business do not assume he is trying to "do" 
you because his methods differ from those of some other builder you know 
of. Meet your builder with confidence and good temper, and he will re- 
spond with an especial effort to give you not only the value of your money 
but a little more for kindness — you can capitalize courtesy, and you will 
enjoy doing it. ■ 



Officers and Members 


The American Face Brick Association 


1921 


PAUL B. BELDEN, President 


B. MIFFLIN HOOD, 2nd Vice President 


B. W. BALLOU, 1st Vice Presdent 


R. D. T. HOLLOWELL, Sec.-Treas. 


Directors 


B. W. BALLOU, 

Kansas Buff Brick & Mfg. Co., 

Kansas City, Mo. 


W. H. HOAGLAND 

Claycraft Mining and Brick Company, 
Columbus, 0. 


GEORGE A. BASS 

Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, 

St. Louis, Mo. 


B. MIFFLIN HOOD 

Legg Brick Company, 

Atlantic, Ga. 


H. R. BEEGLE 
Beaver Clay Manufacturing Company, 
New Galilee, Pa. 


G. B. LUCKETT 

Crawfordsville Shale Brick Co., 

Crawfordsville, Ind. 


P. B. BELDEN 
The Belden Brick Company, 
Canton, 0. 


S. C. MARTIN 
Kittanning Brick & Fire Clay Co., 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 


W. R. BENNETT 

Acme Brick Company, 

Fort Worth, Tex. 


H. R. MEARS 

Bloomsburg Brick Company, 

Bloomsburg, Pa. 


J. H. BLACK 

Jewettville Clay Products Company, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 


T. C. MOULDING 
Straitsville Impervious Brick Co. 
Chicago, 111. 


J. W. BOGUE 

V. V. V. Brick & Tile Company, 

Neodesha, Kan. 


EBEN RODGERS 
Alton Brick Company, 
Alton, 111. 


F. W. BUTTER WORTH 

Western Brick Company, 

Danville, 111. 


W. SIWART SMIT 

Twin City Brick Company, 

St. Paul, Minn. 


T. P. CUTHBERT 

Fallston Fire Clay Company, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 


CHAS. C. STRATTON 

Alumina Shale Brick Company, 

Bradford, Pa. 


Members 


Alabama 


Illinois 


Alphons Custodis Chimney Const. Co., 

Ragland 
Birmingham Clay Products Co., Birmingham 
Stephenson, L. L., Lovick 

Arkansas 
Fort Smith Brick Co., Fort Smith 

California 
Livermore Fire Brick Works, San Francisco 
Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co., Los Angeles 
Pacific Sewer Pipe Co., Los Angeles 


Acme Brick Co., Danville 
Alton Brick Co., Alton 
Barr Clay Co., Streator 
Decatur Brick Manufacturing Co., Decatur 
Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., Chicago 
Lacon Clay & Coal Co., Lacon 
Peoria Brick & Tile Co., Peoria 
Richards Brick Co., Edwardsville 
Southern Fire Brick & Clay Co., Chicago 
Streator Brick Co., Streator 
Western Brick Co., Danville 

Indiana 


Georgia 
Legg Brick Co., Atlanta 

Idaho 
Burley Brick & Sand Co., Burley 
Idaho Pressed Brick Co., Pocatello 


Brazil Clay Co., Brazil 
Brooklyn Brick Co., Indianapolis 
Crawfordsville Shale Brick Co., Crawfordsville 
Huntingburg Pressed Brick Co., 

Huntingburg 
Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., Indianapolis 
Poston Paving Brick Co., Crawfordsville 



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Indiana (Continued) 


Ohio (Continued; 


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Standard Brick Co., 


Crawfordsville 


Summitville Clay Products Co. 


, 


Standard Brick Manufacturing Co., 




Summitville 




Evansville 


Toronto Fire Clay Co., 


Toronto 


U. S. Brick Co., 


Tell City 


Webster Brick Co., 


Chillicothe 


Iowa 




Oklahoma 




Ballou Brick Co., 


Sioux City 


Muskogee Vit. Brick & Tile Co 


., 


Boone Brick, Tile & Paving Cc 


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Muskogee 




Des Moines 


Pawhuska Vit. Brick & Tile Cc 


., 


Des Moines Clay Co. 


Des Moines 




Pawhuska 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Davenport 


Pennsylvania 




Kansas 




Alumina Shale Brick Co., 


Bradford 


Cherryvale Brick Co., 


Cherryvale 


Auburn Shale Brick Co., 


Auburn 


Coffeyville Vit. Brick & Tile Co., 


Bloomsburg Brick Co., 


Bloomsburg 




Coffeyville 


Beaver Clay Mfg. Co., 


New Galilee 


V. V. V. Brick & Tile Co., 


Neodesha 


Bradford Brick Co., 
Darlington Brick & Mining Co 


Bradford 


Kentucky 






Darlington 


Coral Ridge Clay Products Co., 


Louisville 


Darlington Clay Products Co., 


Darlington 


Sphar Brick Co., 


Maysville 


Fallston Fire Clay Co., 


Pittsburgh 






Ferro Brick Co., 


Watsontown 


Michigan 




Glonlnger & Co., 


Pittsburgh 


Briggs Company, 


Lansing 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Du Bois 






Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Philadelphia 


Minnesota 




Kane Brick & Tile Co., 


St. Marys 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Minneapolis 


Keystone Clay Products Co., 


Greensburg 


Twin City Brick Co., 


St. Paul 


Kittanning Brick & Fire Clay Co., 


Mississippi 




Kittanning Clay Mfg. Co., 


Kittanning 


Brookhaven Pressed Brick & Mfg. Co., 


Kittanning Clay Products Co., 


Bradford 




Brookhaven 


Kushequa Brick Co., 


Kushequa 






Latrobe Brick Co., 


Latrobe 


Missouri 




Mill Hall Brick Works, 


Lock Haven 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Kansas City 


Penn Brick Corporation, 


Bradford 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


St. Louis 


Pittsburgh-Callery Brick Co., 


Pittsburgh 


Kansas Buff Brick & Mfg. Co. 


, Kansas City 


Ridgway Brick Co., 


Watsontown 






Rochester Clay Products Co., 


Rochester 


New Jersey 




Stuempfle's Sons, David, 


Williamsport 


Krantz Company, A. M., 


Paterson 


Walker Brick Co., Hay, 


Pittsburgh 


Upper Kittanning Brick Co., 


Jersey City 


Walkers Mills Stone & Brick Co., 1 

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New York 




Watsontown Brick Co., 


J. ILLOUUlgli 

Watsontown 


Jewettville Clay Products Co., 


Buffalo 


Williamsgrove Brick Co., 


Bigler 






Wynn & Starr Co., 


Trafford 


North Carolina 


Yingling-Martin Brick Co., 


Pittsburgh 


Statesville Brick Co., 


Statesville 










South Carolii 


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Ohio 




Sumter Brick Works, 


Sumter 


Acme Brick Co., 


Marietta 






Alliance Brick Co., 


Alliance 


Tennessee 




Belden Brick Co., 


Canton 


Bush & Company, W. G., 


Nashville 


Carlyle-Labold Co., 


Portsmouth 


Dixie Brick & Tile Co., 


Puryear 


Claycraft Mining & Brick Co., 


Columbus 


Key-James Brick Co., 


Alton Park 


Colonial Pressed Brick Co., 


Mogadore 






Duro Brick Mfg. Co., 


Akron 


Texas 




Everhard Company, 


Massillon 


Acme Brick Co., 


Fort Worth 


Franklin Brick & Tile Co., 


Columbus 


Elgin-Butler Brick & Tile Co., 


Austin 


Fultonham Texture Brick Co., 


E. Fultonham 


Elgin-Standard Brick Mfg. Co., 


Elgin 


Hanover Brick Co., 


Columbus 






Hocking Valley Fire Clay Co., 


Nelsonville 


Utah 




Hocking Valley Products Co., 


Columbus 


Ashton Fire Brick & Tile Co., 


Ogden 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Cleveland 


Ogden Pressed Brick & Tile Co., | 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Roseville 




Ogden 


Ironclay Brick Co., 


Columbus 


Salt Lake Pressed Brick Co., 


Salt Lake City 


McArthur Brick Co., 


McArthur 


Utah Fire Clay Co., 


Salt Lake City 


Marietta Shale Brick Co., 


Marietta 






Stark Brick Co., 


Canton 


Washington, D 


C. 


Straitsville Imp. Brick Co., 


New Straitsville 


Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 


Washington 



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